Now here's a pretty nifty device...a hand held thunderbolt detector!!
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"Next time you go out on a “dark and stormy night”, you might want to bring along a safety net. Spectrum Electronics’ “Thunderbolt Storm Detector” is a handheld, portable device that detects storm and lightning activity from over 75 miles away and then warns you about the storm’s distance, approach speed, intensity, and estimated arrival time. This sort of device might have been super handy for victims of Hurricane Katrina, but it’s even more practical for those with the means of quickly escaping these types of storms. And since it displays over 50 warning text messages, you’ll know of every potential hazard well before things get rough."
might need to get myself one!!
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it does help a person but not a community. You can not move your house away from the path of a destructive hurricane like Katrina. The reality is becuase of global warming this kind of nature activity will be more often.
It sounds like a good idea, but I think it would come down to the price. The cost of the device would be impractical for some people, so they wouldn't buy one and the problem would still be there.
The best idea would be to warn people (and by that, I mean the whole community), but even then they would need the money to be able to get out.
Now here's a pretty nifty device...a hand held thunderbolt detector!!
"Next time you go out on a “dark and stormy night”, you might want to bring along a safety net. Spectrum Electronics’ “Thunderbolt Storm Detector” is a handheld, portable device that detects storm and lightning activity from over 75 miles away and then warns you about the storm’s distance, approach speed, intensity, and estimated arrival time. This sort of device might have been super handy for victims of Hurricane Katrina, but it’s even more practical for those with the means of quickly escaping these types of storms. And since it displays over 50 warning text messages, you’ll know of every potential hazard well before things get rough."
might need to get myself one!!
I think if they built one of these things they would have a home unit first.
This sort of device might have been super handy for victims of Hurricane Katrina, but it’s even more practical for those with the means of quickly escaping these types of storms.
as if the people of New Orleans hadn't been warned ... just about everyone knew it was coming, even without such a thing. The problem was just that most people didn't have any means of escaping and there was next to no governmental support (be it from the city's, state or federal gov)...
anyways, I don't think I'll buy such a device or even carry it around with me all the time - with some experience on the weather at your place you can tell when a storm is approaching even without a computer in your hand...
yea well whats the price check on something like that? Even if it was cheaper i dont think people would bother picking one up. They thought that this would never happen to them so they all didnt prepare. The hurricane Rita people are taking alot more seriously and are moving people out and getting prepare for the worst case. The only thing that they really could of done better is have a plan and been prepared. They should of all been out of there before it got too bad. New Orleans was below sea level so this was bound to happen sometime. They say that in about 40 years that New Orleans will be part of the Gulf anyways people of the rise of the water. So i dont know what the future holds but they should know by now that another hurricane could cause just as much damage.
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